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7, Patented Feb. 21, 1922?.

H. A. ANANIANJ TOY.

APPLICATION FILED lUL. 3,1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed July 3, 1920. Serial No. 393,804.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOHANNIS A. ANA NIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at aterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to toys and it consists in a toy including a blow-tube through which the user blows, a propeller-shaped wheel or equivalent rotary vane-element, and means to support the vane-element in such a way as to be turned very rapidly by the current of air blown through the blow-tube, the vane-element for this purpose being ar ranged with its axis of rotation substantially parallel with but offset from the axis of the blow-tube.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section, of one form of the invention;

igure 2 shows a detail in perspective;

Figure 3 shows another form of the invention in side elevation;

Figure 4 shows still another form of the invention in side elevation, partly in section; and

Figure 5 is a front elevation of one of the vanes shown in Figure 4.

a 0; indicates a suitable blow-tube, which may be formed of any material, as paper, for example.

7) designates a rotary vane whose blades are set obliquely like the blades of a propeller. It is designed that a person using the device should place one end of the blow-- tube a in his mouth and by blowing through the same rotate the vane by means of the air current issuing from the other end or the blow-tube very rapidly and to this end the vane-element is arranged with its axis parallel to the blow-tube and so that its blades will out said current of air.

To this end, I prefer to construct the means which supports the vane-element. substantially as follows: A strip of sheet material is bent back on itself at one end so as to form a tubular socket c, to fit over the discharge end of the blow-tube, and is also bent back on itself at its other end so as to form a fold or gripping portion at parallel with the socket c. This form of supporting means is also shown in Figure 3; in Figure 4 the socket, 0, is elongated at one end, and in this form the elongated end fits into the end of the blow-tube, instead of being fitted over it as in Figures 1 and 3. In all three figures the strip constitutes, when attached to the blow-tube, a radial arm. Held gripped by the holding portion (Z is a pin a. This pin may be an ordinary wire nail the head of which is at the end away from the user. The vane b is journaled on this pin between its head f and the radial arm, aforesaid, formed by the strip.

I maymount two or more vanes on the pin 6, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, and they may be formed to rotate in reverse directions; in other respects, they may have various forms, two different forms being shown in Figures 1 and 3 on the one hand and Figures 3 and t on the other.

I may further provide a button 9 on the pin which fits rather snugly thereon but may be moved to j am one vane 6 against the head f of the pin, or the other vane against a suitable stop it, so that the vane so jammed or held will not rotate while the other remains rotatable.

The discharge end of the blow-tube a may be cut partway through and then bent down wardly, as at i in Figures 3 and i so as to form (when provided with a suitable reed in]; equivalent, not shown) a whistle or the In all forms it will be noted that the blades of the vane or vanes are arranged so as to out the current of air issuing from the blowtube.

Device s will give a whistling sound with out a reed, if the lower end is closed, as by the users thumb.

I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction herein set forth what I claim being:

1. In a toy, the combination of a blowtube, a fiat strip projecting radially from the blow-tube and having one end bent around and thus gripping one end of the blow-tube, a pin arranged substantially parand bent ofi' Where thus cut to form a Whistle, and a movable member arranged 10 on the arm in the path of and adapted to be moved by a current of air diseharged from the blow-tube.

In testimony whereof I aflix "signature. 3 I

ANANIAN. 

